Category Gareth speaks from the Kitchen

Having bariatric surgery limited my amount of food choices. While I could eat many things, I found that I could not eat many of the culinary options I’d grown accustomed to, which lead me on a journey. I had to find new selections that would allow me to enjoy my foods, but were diverse enough […]

My word! It has truly been a long time since I posted a recipe here. Well I’m happy to report that I am alive and kicking! God is good and I am a truly blessed man. The following is a nice, gluten–free meal that I adapted from a Gabriele Corcos recipe I saw on Extra […]

Get ready, kiddies! The blog will be getting steady updates soon as my congregation, Pleasant Valley Assembly of God, gets ready to begin our annual Daniel Fast. I expect blessings, miracles and divine wisdom to flow as it did last year. I will also be experimenting with new Daniel Fast recipes that I will post. […]

I made this today, experimenting, and it came out awesome, so I thought I’d post it. Is it hot chocolate or cocoa? All I know is that it’s good. Sorry, no pictures yet, I just wanted to get it down. I will update the post with pictures the next time I make it. I’m sure […]

RICE PILAF One of the first “gourmet” dishes I learned to make was rice pilaf. I borrowed a cookbook from one of my aunts, shortly after high school, because I wanted to learn how to cook for myself. I used it over the years, eventually tweaking it to use organic ingredients. It is one of […]

My wife and I are entering our third week of our Daniel fast, which began on August 4th, and it has been a rough ride. I admit that I went off the fast one day, using the excuse that my nephew was over helping me out, to cover for my taking him to breakfast for […]

Okay, yesterday, we roasted vegetables and made an awesome veggie broth from those vegetables. (As Anne Burrel says, “Brown food tastes good!”) I promised you that I would post a vegetarian chili recipe to give those vegetables one more life, and here I am to deliver on that promise! So, at this point, you should […]